Lesson 76
"I am under no laws but God's."

We have observed before how many senseless things have seemed to you to be
salvation. Each has imprisoned you with laws as senseless as itself. You are not
bound by them. Yet to understand that this is so, you must first realize
salvation lies not there. While you would seek for it in things that have no
meaning, you bind yourself to laws that make no sense. Thus do you seek to prove
salvation is where it is not.

Today we will be glad you cannot prove it. For if you could, you would forever
seek where it is not and never find it. The idea for today tells you once again
how simple is salvation. Look for it where it waits for you, and there it will
be found. Look nowhere else, for it is nowhere else.

Think of the freedom in the recognition that you are not bound by all the
strange and twisted laws which you have set up to save you. You really think
that you would starve unless you have stacks of green paper strips and piles of
metal discs. You really think a small round pellet or some fluid pushed into
your veins through a sharpened needle will ward off death. You really think you
are alone unless another body is with you.

It is insanity that thinks these things. You call them laws, and put them under
different names in a long catalogue of rituals that have no use and serve no
purpose. You think you must obey the "laws" of medicine, of economics and of
health. Protect the body and you will be saved.

These are not laws, but madness. The body is endangered by the mind that hurts
itself. The body suffers that the mind will fail to see it is the victim of
itself. The body's suffering is a mask the mind holds up to hide what really
suffers. It would not understand it is its own enemy; that it attacks itself and
wants to die. It is from this your "laws" would save the body. It is for this
you think you are a body.

There are no laws except the laws of God. This needs repeating, over and
over, until you realize that it applies to everything that you have made in
opposition to His Will. Your magic has no meaning. What it is meant to save does
not exist. Only what it is meant to hide will save you.

The laws of God can never be replaced. We will devote today to rejoicing that
this is so. It is no longer a truth which we would hide. We realize instead it
is a truth which keeps us free forever. Magic imprisons, but the laws of God set
free. The light has come because there are no laws but His.

We will begin the longer practice period today with a short review of the
different kinds of "laws" we have believed we must obey. These would
include, for example, the laws of nutrition, of immunization, of medication, and
of the body's protection in innumerable ways. Think further; you believe in
the laws of friendship, of "good" relationships and reciprocity.

Perhaps you even think that there are laws which set forth what is God's and
what is yours. Many "religions" have been based on this. They would not
save, but damn in Heaven's name. Yet they are no more strange than other laws
you hold must be obeyed to make you safe.

There are no laws but God's. Dismiss all foolish magical beliefs today, and
hold your mind in silent readiness to hear the Voice that speaks the truth to
you. You will be listening to One who says there is no loss under the laws of
God. Payment is neither given nor received. Exchange cannot be made, there are
no substitutes, and nothing is replaced by something else. God's laws forever
give and never take.

Hear Him Who tells you this, and realize how foolish are the laws you thought
upheld the world you thought you saw. Then listen further. He will tell you
more. About the Love your Father has for you. About the endless joy He offers
you. About His yearning for His only Son, created as His channel for creation;
denied to Him by his belief in hell.

Let us today open God's channels to Him, and let His Will extend through us to
Him. Thus is creation endlessly increased. His Voice will speak of this to us,
as well as of the joys of Heaven which His laws keep limitless forever. We will
repeat today's idea until we have listened and understood there are no laws
but God's. Then we will tell ourselves, as a dedication with which the
practice period concludes:

"I am under no laws but God's."

We will repeat this dedication as often as
possible today; at least four or five times an hour, as well as in response to
any temptation to experience ourselves as subject to other laws throughout the
day. It is our statement of freedom from all danger and all tyranny. It is our
acknowledgment that God is our Father, and that His Son is saved.